Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales

The Materials Research Society (MRS)

Announce the

XXIII INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS RESEARCH CONGRESS 2014

17 – 21 August, Cancún, Mexico

This annual international meeting provides an interactive forum to discuss the advances in synthesis, characterization, properties, processing, applications, basic research trends, corrosion prevention, and more, all related to the area of materials science and engineering.

The efforts of several societies, colleagues, sponsors and exhibitors offer an exciting multidisciplinary stage to learn first-hand about new directions in materials research and technology, as well as a valuable opportunity to share and exchange ideas with some of the foremost experts in the field.

POSTER PRESENTATION

The size of the board is 100 cm width x 250 cm height; the suggested poster size is 90 cm width x 120 cm height.
Posters will be attached to corkboard provided for all posters in the poster room locations.
Poster sessions are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.
When the poster session is finished at 8:30 PM, each presenter will remove their poster from the respective board.

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Sergei V. Kalinin

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Sergei V. Kalinin is currently a senior research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and co-theme leader for scanning probe microscopy at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL, following an Eugene P. Wigner fellow appointment at ORNL (2002–2004).

Tuesday 19th

Douglas Osheroff

J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics at Stanford

Dr. Osheroff received his undergraduate degree in physics from Caltech University. In 1973, he finished his doctoral degree in physics from Cornell University with a dissertation topic on "Unusual properties of helium-3 in liquid and solid phase".

Tuesday 19th

Anthony D. Rollett

Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Rollett’s research program emphasizes quantification of microstructure, especially in three dimensions, and its impact on properties and processing using both computational and experimental techniques. Important recent results include the effect of second phase particles on grain size stabilization in superalloys.

Wednesday 20th

Manuel E. Brito

University of Yamanashi

Prof. Manuel E. Brito, a native of the Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela, received an Eng. D. degree from Nagaoka University of Technology (Japan) in 1989. He joined Clean Energy Research Center at University of Yamanashi (Japan) in April 2013 after serving during 21 years as Chief Research Scientist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.

Thursday 21st

Lai-Sheng Wang

Brown University

Lai-Sheng Wang is currently Professor of Chemistry at Brown University in Providence, Rohde Island. He is an experimental physical chemist known for his work on gold nanoclusters and planar boron clusters. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Wuhan University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990.

Monday 18th

Mihail C. Roco

National Science Foundation and National Nanotechnology Initiative

The long term view of nanoscale science and engineering development from basics to system integration and technological convergence-divergence cycles is discussed. A twenty year outlook for nanotechnology development was formulated about 2000 (NNI), with the promise to create basic understanding and a general purpose technology with mass and sustainable use by 2020.

Sunday 17th

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